![We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.](/assets/img/quote-photos/we-thought-being-offered-the-mbe-member-of-the-order-of-the-british-empire-w.jpg)
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I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent. David Friedman
music whatever
I'm just kind of a music junkie. Whatever I'm doing at the moment is my favorite. Jim Foglesong
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I'm not a musician making words to go with my music. John Trudell
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music creating
To keep creating you have to be about change. Miles Davis
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Some people still don't believe she's for real. If they have an issue to deal with they should get over the fact that girls should have no limits set on them. They should never hold themselves back.
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Sometimes people in this area, they just believe that one of us, if not both of us, should be in the Colonial Center every year.
believe god heard seeing seen touched
Seeing is believing, I will believe in God only if I see Him; but are all things seen or heard or touched or tasted, as real as they seem? Sathya Baba
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Russia is our strategic partner and we believe that in the course of this visit we will lay the groundwork for a new stage in the development of Ukrainian-Russian relations, Viktor Yushchenko
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order democracy too-much
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much. Clarence Darrow
order space common-sense
The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times. David Harvey
order law punishment
If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but have no sense of shame. If they are governed by virtue and rules of propriety are used to maintain order, they will have a sense of shame and will become good as well. Confucius
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Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end. Daniel Tammet
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Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it. Andre Malraux
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order denominations form
We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland. Ameen Rihani
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Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick. Ambrose Bierce
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It's very difficult to liberate yourself from what you've learned. You know it's almost impossible because you learn in order to survive. Anthony Hopkins